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The Archives and Special Collections invites you to view our display featuring military-related pieces from the William J. Janklow Papers. Items now on display include: • Marine Corps Jacket, two USMC lapel pins, and business cards from Governor and Congress • Longlive Friendship Plaque, gifted to Janklow by the Republic of […]

Lately I have been assigned to the exciting task of carefully vacuuming books and wiping the shelves clean in the Chilson collection. It is a task that would be boring if there weren’t so many interesting books on every shelf. I’ve been working my way through beautifully illustrated Native American children’s books, histories of Wounded […]

The Schell Collection contains 85 George McGovern pins and buttons. Some of the pins include his wife, Eleanor, as well.

Eldridge Cleaver ran for president in 1968 under the Peace and Freedom party.

The Schell Collection contains pin of candidates who did not win the election as well. This pin is from Thomas Dewey’s campaign. It suggests a comparison between President F.D.R. and Hitler.

The Schell Collection contains 47 Jimmy Carter pins and buttons. The collection also includes a Billy Beer can and maps and brochures of Plains, Georgia, President Carter’s hometown.

The Schell Collection also contains several pins and buttons relating to South Dakota.

The Schell Collection contains 3 pins relating to Theodore Roosevelt’s presidential campaigns.

The staff from the Archives and Special Collections needs your help in identifying this pin. Our assumption is that it is from World War II, but we would like to have more information. Please comment if you have any more information about this pin.

The Schell Collection contains 10 pins relating to the William McKinley Political Campaigns. One such pin is shown below.

This summer students processed Allan H. Schell’s Collection of Political Buttons, Pins, and Political Ephemera. The collection includes over 1,000 pins and buttons dating from the 1884 Presidential Campaign to the 2000 Presidential Campaign. In addition, the collection contains pins and buttons relating to South Dakota’s gubernatorial and senatorial elections beginning in 1901.